Senior Cloud Security Engineer: Azure & AWS Lead

191 Altera Corporation; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 216,000; Full time

Job summary

Altera Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead hands-on security across Azure and AWS. You will design secure foundations, protect workloads, and automate controls in partnership with platform, infrastructure, and security teams.

The role requires deep cloud security expertise, IAM, network security, IaC, and incident response to drive secure patterns, governance, and risk management across multiple accounts and regions.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in cloud security, cloud engineering, or related discipline.
• Hands-on security engineering experience with Azure and AWS.
• Strong understanding of cloud identity and access management, federation, and workload identities.
• Experience securing cloud networking, including segmentation, firewalls, routing, and private connectivity.
• Practical experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment workflows.
• Experience with cloud logging, monitoring, vulnerability management, and incident response.
• Understanding of encryption, key management, and data protection in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with OCI security architecture is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure architectures for Azure and AWS environments, including landing zones, accounts, networking, and workloads.
• Establish cloud security reference architectures, guardrails, and configuration standards.
• Review cloud designs for security risks and provide pragmatic mitigations.
• Apply defense-in-depth across cloud identity, network, compute, storage, data, and management planes.
• Automate security validation, controls, and detection within CI/CD pipelines.
• Partner with security operations and incident response teams for investigations and playbooks.
• Maintain secure baseline configurations and risk governance across multi-account environments.

Skills

Cloud security

Cloud engineering

Identity and access management

Security architecture

Security operations

Incident response

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Open Policy Agent

Checkov

Kubernetes

AKS

EKS

Job description

Altera Corporation in San Jose, CA seeks a Senior Cloud Security Engineer to lead hands-on security across Azure and AWS. You will design secure foundations, protect workloads, and automate controls in partnership with platform, infrastructure, and security teams.

The role requires deep cloud security expertise, IAM, network security, IaC, and incident response to drive secure patterns, governance, and risk management across multiple accounts and regions.